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title: “This pattern, and the colors, yes, I will tell the Emperor without… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “This pattern, and the colors, yes, I will tell the Emperor without delay, how very beautiful I think them.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 32

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“This pattern, and the colors, yes, I will tell the Emperor without delay, how very beautiful I think them.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** tell, think · **To what, where:** Emperor, patterns · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:2:32
# text = “This pattern, and the colors, yes, I will tell the Emperor without delay, how very beautiful I think them.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | I |  | the Emperor |  |  | without delay | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I | patterns *= pattern* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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